"NEW: Nintendo is suing the creators of popular Switch emulator Yuzu, saying their tech illegally circumvents Nintendo's software encryption and facilitates piracy. Seeks damages for alleged violations and a shutdown of the emulator.

Notes 1 million copies of Tears of the Kingdom downloaded prior to game's release; says Yuzu's Patreon support doubled during that time. Basically arguing that that is proof that Yuzu's business model helps piracy flourish."

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 10 months ago (1 children)

FWIW you can lawfully play pirated games, so that means nothing.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Case in point there is some evidence that Nintendo might have used a dumped and illegally distributed version of Super Mario Bros. in their Wii Virtual Console

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That’s a funny one too me, because they are the original source when you dig your way down, so how are they doing anything wrong there?

Yeah it’s someone else’s work… which isn’t there’s anyways… so isn’t it always nintendos then?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They're profiting from something they themselves say is illegal.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

It’s illegal if you don’t own the rom or decoded it with their keys. If you have the physical copy of the game, and a way to decrypt it, it’s not illegal to play the rom on an emulator.

So it’s not illegal, it becomes illegal when you don’t have the physical copy, or decode it with their stuff.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's rather clear evidence that they dumped their own ROM and distributed that. Since they own the rights to that ROM, they're not distributing it illegally though. They can dump and distribute their ROMs all they want; they own the rights to them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I'm no legal expert but Nintendo's argument seems to surround a video game emulator being a tool whose primary use is to facilitate illegal circumvention of DRM and piracy. Nintendo's use of emulation for a legal means to resell their games on another platform, could suggest otherwise. The possible use of a ROM illegally distributed by a 3rd party as inputs in a legitimate Nintendo emulator (though Nintendo denies this) could help separate the issues between ROMs and emulation, because Nintendo's emulator isn't used for piracy.

Nintendo could use a copy of the freely available Yuzu to emulate Switch games on their rumored Switch 2, if they were so inclined, and it would be a legitimate use case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I cannot even come up with a way to express how goddamn hilarious that is!!